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Chris O’Connell’s stellar campaign to his 2022 Australian Open spell have came to an end as Maxime Cressy advances to Round 4 v Daniil Medvedev

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Tough luck for Chris O’Connell as his stellar spell to the 2022 Australian Open campaign has just come to an end v Maxime Cressy in Round 3 at Court No.3, he fought back with a 1-1 lead even it’s a very close tiebreaker, unfortunately, it didn’t help him stay in contention especially when he had a hip issue earlier on, couldn’t bridge his strong 1st half feel & Cressy began to notice these weaknesses in which helped him collect the remaining 3rd & 4th sets.

Well, O’Connell is age 27 in his prime right now as he hopes to use this breakthrough campaign in Melbourne towards better honors this season in the ATP Circuit, while improving his other Grand Slam records in Paris, Wimbledon & New York later this year.

And congratulations to Cressy with the win where he was always on top of his game apart from the narrow 2nd set loss, he wrapped a very easy first set before Cressy pulled way ahead of O’Connell as this tie goes on that reflected an excellent run of momentum in the end. The American will have a difficult encounter next up though, if he was to get past 2nd seed Russian Daniil Medvedev in the 4th Round on Monday.

Final Score: 2-6, 7-6 via 8-6 tiebreaker, 3-6, 2-6

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Tennis News, Chris O’Connell advances to Round 3 of the 2022 Australian Open after he nailed down 13th seed Diego Schwartzman from Argentina in straight sets

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Outstanding performance from Chris O’Connell on Round 2 of the 2022 Australian Open as he just knocked down Diego Schwartzman from Argentina in straight sets (6-4 via 6-8 tiebreaker, 4-6 & 4-6), even though it was a really close battle throughout the entire three-hour tie at Court No.3.

Schwartzman was gutted to be eliminated on Day 4 after he came here as the 13th seed in this draw, he showed some fight a couple of times where he did his best to close in on O’Connell & didn’t take his opponent lightly. However, he couldn’t hold the Australian back every time his opponent won set after set, plus he was also hesitant about the lack of conversions which is something Schwartzman couldn’t back up on the tennis court today.

And congratulations to Chris O’Connell with a huge & breakthrough win, it wasn’t the easiest of challenges when he came up against someone, who is closer to the Top 10 seeds, in this year’s Australian Open. Well, he managed to overcome plenty of these competitive battles against Schwartzman before O’Connell nailed it all through every checkpoint and later the finish line after three sets done early out of five.

Let’s see if he can go all the way having entered the men’s singles draw as the wildcard.

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